"A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail."
— Science

January 1, 1970

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Tobias Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, Chapter XLIII. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), pp. 691-92